More Accusations of Scandal Are Thrown at Gonzales

Looks like a new front will be opening up on the WOG (war on Gonzales.)

“Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, both already under siege for other matters, are now being accused of failing to prosecute officers of the Texas Youth Commission after a Texas Ranger investigation documented that guards and administrators were sexually abusing the institution's teenage boy inmates. The allegation around Gonzales centers on whether he turned a “blind-eye” to sexual abuse of the teenage boys in the custody of officers of the Texas Youth Commission:.” “The Texas Youth Comission [sic] controversy traces back to a criminal investigation conducted in 2005 by Texas Ranger Brian Burzynski. The investigation revealed key employees at the West Texas State School in Pyote, Texas, were systematically abusing youth inmates in their custody. Burzynski presented his findings to the attorney general in Texas, to the U.S. Attorney Sutton, and to the Department of Justice civil rights division. From all three, Burzynski received no interest in prosecuting the alleged sexual offenses.” Says the report “Among the charges in the Texas Ranger report were that administrators would rouse boys from their sleep for the purpose of conducting all-night sex parties.”

Now, if you think this won’t be used as a political ejection button by Bush Administration enemies listen to this comment by Matt Angle, director of the Lone Star Project: “This case demonstrates that a partisan political agenda, with Karl Rove in an orchestrating role, has penetrated the Justice Department and subverted fair-minded administration of the law.” Needless to say that nowhere else in the whole sordid story is Karl Rove’s name even mentioned. But that won’t matter to administration critics who see yet another missile to be hurled at the Republican administration via Gonzales. The mentality seems to be that if they hurl enough mud, something’s got to stick. The Lone Star Project is billed by WND writer Jerome Corsi as “a political research and policy analysis project of the Lone Star Fund, a federal political action committee organized in Texas. The Lone Star Project has aggressively investigated alleged political abuses within the Texas Republican Party, including playing a leading role in investigating the activities of former Rep. Tom DeLay in the redistricting controversy in Texas.”